Wallasey Does Not Want Private Hire
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THE corporation should keep to stage services and leave other operators to handle contract-carriage work. Cllr. H. T. K. Morris told Wallasey .Town Council this last week when he successfully moved that the transport committee's proposal that the local Member of Parliament should be asked to support the contract-carriage provision in the Public Service Vehicles (Contract Carriages and Special Travel Facilities) Bill should not be ratified.
He said that the corporation's income from contract-carriage work had fallen from £20,000 in 1953-54 to an estimated £11,000 in 1954-55.
Aid. E. T. Rollins said that private operators who hired the corporation's buses were "skimming the cream of the traffic." The municipality should be allowed to use their transport in competition with private undertakings.
Sheffield City Council decided last week to support the Bill. Supporting an amendment against the Bill, Aid. • Sir Harold Jackson said they were being made to look foolish in supporting the Bill, as the transport undertaking was not being run as it ought to be.
HULL TRANSPORT DESPERATE
THE transport situation in Hull is becoming desperate. The volume of traffic is rising and hauliers in the city are no longer able to help each other by sub-contracting spare vehicles during peak periods.
This was stated to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority last week by Mr. F. W. Bradley, manager of Baldry's Haulage, Ltd., Hull, who wished to add three trunk vehicles and a local collection and delivery vehicle to their fleet.
Mr. Bradley added that he frequently had to search for vehicles 50-60 miles away from Hull to handle extra work. Rates of British Road Services were so high that they could not be used as sub-contractors.
B.R.S. opposed the application. The Authority granted a licence for a local and a long-distance vehicle.
GLASGOW TO HIRE BUSES? A SUB-COMMITTEE has been 1-1 appointed by Glasgow Transport Committee to consider an offer by Northern Roadways, Ltd., to hire buses and drivers to the city transport department. The department, which is faced with the problem of providing bus services for many new housing schemes, has an acute shortage of drivers.
TOUR APPEAL REJECTED
THE Minister of Transport has rejected an appeal by Greenslades' Tours, Ltd., against the refusal of the Western Licensing Authority to grant them permission to operate an additional Continental tour from Exeter with picking-up points at llminster, Crewkerne and Dorchester.